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Note In Cloting’ ’
Bob is native of Elba, A)., and
r began his career in Journalism aa a
seventh grader at his hometown
* weekly newspaper. “Many of my
k essays are about growing up in a
small town,” he says. “You Just
never quite get away from your
roots.” After graduation from the
University of Alabama in 1968, he
began Ms television career at v
WSFA-TV in Montgomery and came
to Charlotte’s WBTV in 1970.
He returned to the University of
Alabama in 1975 to work In public
relations and earn A master of fine
arts degree in creative writing, then
came back to WBTV News in 1979.
i He co-anchorf the 8 and a evening
& newscasts,- and Ms special reporting
assignments have included trips to
London and Buenos Aires doing the
1982 Falklands conflict, add cover
age of the 1984 Democratic and
Republican conventions.
^ Bob’s j^iw^^aometown^i^r^
! the Carolina!, is a regular feature of
WBTV News.
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•jjita ocperience as a newscaster
helped darn him a part in the 190
CBS-TV mini-series,. "Chiefs,” '
which was Aliped in Chester, S.C.
Bob la also the author of a novel,
“The Cockatiel,” which will be pu
blished nationwide by Little,
Brown Publishing Company of
Boston in September, 1986. He says
it’s the story of s smalltown
.Southern newspaper editor aind Us
family, set at the end of World War
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Bob and Us wife, Paulette, are tbe
parents of two daughters: 10th grad
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